You are newly hired Nurse Informaticist at a small Critical AccessHospital.You previously worked for a large multi-hospital/clinic healthsystem who has been "electronic" for 10 years now.Seeing the need tomeet federal guidelines, you have decided that the critical accesshospital needs an Electronic Medical Record.Your goal is to bring the hospital paper order entry system to afull-fledged electronic medical record.

Statistics:

No. of Hospitals:1

No of Eligible Professionals (i.e. Eligible for Meaningful Use):150

No of FTEs (Full Time Equivalents) under your leadership: 20.Average FTE

Salary is 45,000/year.

Budget:5 million

Design a Projectwhich incorporates all facets of implementing an EMR.

First, you must convince the CEO by presentingALL FACETS of MeaningfulUse and the value of implementing an EMR to this rural hospital. (Seeassignment of providing excel sheet on financial incentives for MeaningfulUse). Describe some of the regulatory nature surrounding electronic healthrecord use and why it is important to implement now rather than later.---i.e. What is your rationale for implementing an EMR?What are thevarious benefits and risks of implementing and not implementing an EHR ina timely fashion? Second, you will need to select a company who sells certified ElectronicHealth Record software and present this to the CEO.Provide an EHR ofyour choice and give a rationale for selecting the EMR (background, Costs,benefits). Next - develop a Project Vision, Project Scope, Project Timeline, ProjectBudget.Third, Once the project is implemented and launched,describe themetrics you are capturing to satisfy meaningful use (Core Objectives,etc).